The Wildebeest visits local high school students.
As of today 254,945 minutes have been reported and the
Wildebeest has arrived Nkwanta, Ghana with his metaphorical load of books!
We didn’t report quite enough minutes to read him home again, but have
received a generous donation of frequent flyer miles from an anonymous
donor. The Wildebeest says he’ll be back at SSFS at the end of spring
break after a quick trip to visit relatives in Kenya and Tanzania.
It is absolutely not too late to donate books for
the Open-Hearts Community Library. Gently used and new books, the result
of spring cleaning perhaps, can be brought to the library through the 15th
of April. All books are welcome. Books not right for our friends in Ghana
will be found good homes with children in the greater Baltimore-DC area.
What are the right books for our friends in Nkwanta? Books
for pre-readers, children, and adults, up to an US reading level. TK, the
teacher/librarian who will be setting up and running the library, told us that
nonfiction books are of particular interest, though they’d like all kinds of
books. Books written by or about Africans or African Americans are also
of particular interest. TK is very excited that this new library will
give kids in the community the opportunity to choose what they want to read
about.
The African Library Project has a list of guidelines to help
understand which books might best serve the community. Don’t worry if you
are unsure which books will be just right. The librarians, with the help of the
MS Library Committee, be sorting the donated books to make sure each book finds
a just right home.
Remember there is no need to stop reading just because we are
done counting minutes for this year – Books Change Lives! Whether for learning,
relaxing, companionship, pleasure or the other myriad benefits reading brings,
make reading part of your every day.
